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[51d] and have peculiar pleasures in no way subject to comparison with the pleasures of scratching; and there are colors which possess beauty and pleasures of this character. Do you understand?

Protarchus
I am trying to do so, Socrates; and I hope you also will try to make your meaning still clearer.

Socrates
I mean that those sounds which are smooth and clear and send forth a single pure note are beautiful, not relatively, but absolutely, and that there are pleasures which pertain to these by nature and result from them.

Protarchus
Yes, that also is true.


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